Ten Lessons (If you only read one non-Steyn article today, this should be it!)

The Wall Street Journal via dennisprager.com ^ | Daecember 17, 2003 | Dennis Prager

[Feiny]

I listened to Denis read this on the air & take calls today...it was fabulous.

[CasearianDaoist]

No Muslim or Arab country lifted a finger to help the Iraqi people. This is because the Muslim and Arab worlds do not divide the world between good and evil, but between Muslim and non-Muslim and Arab and non-Arab. Since Saddam was a fellow Muslim and Arab, the fact that he tortured and murdered so many was as irrelevant to the Muslim and Arab worlds as the Islamic regime's genocide in Sudan and the subjugation of women in Taliban Afghanistan.

Let us not forget about Kuwait

[Publius]

"It is better to be feared than to be loved."
--Nicolo Macchiavelli

[Ronzo]

9. The Marxist belief that forces, not individuals, shape history is wrong. George W. Bush is living proof.

Amen and Amen.

[Poohbah]

Preach it, Brother Dennis!

[goldstategop]

Its a good distillation of the differences between conservatives and liberals today. With certain exceptions, nearly every conservative believes there is evil as well as good in the world, it is the duty of good men to vanquish it, evil men get their just desserts, and America is a force for good in the world and we want America to do what is right among the nations, not what is popular. And we have in the person of our President a man who believes our rights come from God and America will not rest til every human gets to peaceably exercise the birthright God has implanted in them. Then again in nearly every one of the above circumstances, with a few exceptions, nearly every liberal holds views that are the opposite of the ones cited here. I believe faith and freedom is powerful stuff and that is exactly why the Democratic Party and its liberal helpers, like termites attacking the foundations, have sought to get rid of it here at home. Its time to roll up our sleeves and take our country back.

[ChadsDad]

indeed!

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP - Print later

[Roarkdude]

Dennis, while ofter going out on a tangent, not to say that that's always a bad thing - sometime tangents are interesting in of themselves, I wonder what people before Euclid went out on, irregardless: rocks!

[goodnesswins]

bookmarking.....this is Great.

[quidnunc]

Roarkdude wrote: Dennis, while ofter going out on a tangent, not to say that that's always a bad thing - sometime tangents are interesting in of themselves, I wonder what people before Euclid went out on, irregardless: rocks!

You just brought up tangents so you could get in that Euclid wisecrack, didn't you?

[KantianBurke]

"most of the Right regards the use of American power to vanquish evil as the greatest good the U.S. can engage in."

Oh please. Our armed forces should be used ONLY to defend us! Period. The men and women who protect this nation should NEVER be used to "fight evil" UNLESS its a direct threat against us. For example, Mohammed Fara Adid was a pretty evil guy. But we never should have had anything to do with him or his G-dforsaken country.

[quidnunc]

KantianBurke wrote: ("most of the Right regards the use of American power to vanquish evil as the greatest good the U.S. can engage in.") Oh please. Our armed forces should be used ONLY to defend us! Period. The men and women who protect this nation should NEVER be used to "fight evil" UNLESS its a direct threat against us. For example, Mohammed Fara Adid was a pretty evil guy. But we never should have had anything to do with him or his G-dforsaken country.

To define self-defense only as a response to an aggression is a loser's mindset — but then again paleoconservatives are nothing if not losers.

[KantianBurke]

Where did I ever specify that the defense of this country should be limited to responding to an attack?? My point was simply that our fighting forces should ONLY be used against bad guys who are a threat to US! Not to some idiot neighboring tribe in the Congo. But US! Those who serve shouldn't put their lives on the line to fulfill someone's fantasy about cleansing the earth of evil.

[longtermmemmory]

bump^3

[Roarkdude]

Hey I thought that up on the fly thankyouverymuch. You got to admit: Dennis tangents more often than a geometry professor on crack.

[breakem]

sorry about the duplicate. I did a serach by "Prager" and didn't see it. C-YA

[Humidston]

Thank you for another Prager fix. I LOVE THIS GUY!!